Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-05
THE EUROPEAN FEVER.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Makes an At
tempt to Diagnose the American
Epidemic-Are the Ladies
Rsponsiblo for the Mad Rush of Families
to Europe-1hs Advantages and Disnd-
ventages of q 81 journ ia Europe.
CT cage later ocean.

annual heglra Of Americans 10 Europe.
The craze peryades 81 cl4s5eS-rjch and
DOOR, educated aud uIcducatet, Idle anG
industrious, young and Old. l. "a an cpl
demic similar 10 that which seized cur
people in 1876, ST the time OF the Centen-
MA ExAiGiliUc, Tatn families crampcd
themselves for years 10 make Ire journey
10 PHisjelp1i2, TitA nos unsatisfactory
results, as IuaLy confessed after th2 tx
cite;3eEt sQ5sideG, Some vert from idle
curiosity, sCm= for self Improvement,
some because they we're ashamed to say
they he'd not beer, soIae because tbey ielt
il g patriotic duty to celebrate the l00th
anniversary OF or n2tionsl life. TO that
end houses were nor, gagged, money h9r-
ICWeG, end sill th- peetY economies OF g
lifetime wasted iu day.
JUST 50 this European fever seems to
be attacking thl most rational Americans
and sweeping Jaem sway from their cid
MO ipgs. IL answer to vivid desCrip-
lions travellers give If VIVA. they have
seen ana heard, many Of our cou1,ryme0
auJ wumep, who nave never crossed
The OCEAN, say WIKI q sigh: ~ do hope
sometimes t. visit Europe" feeling IS il
they lacked "a important PR o. their
education and had been GeirsuJed OF one
Il he necessary elements 10 full de-
velopmeut. Parents imagine that they
0 We i as duty 10 their children to send
them ioT few years TO France :nd Ger
many 10 learn The language.
Men say the women are responsible for
this yesrniBg EtteT strange lauda MsrY
husbands whom ! have met here lock
Wesry aad faded. Ihsy complain inst
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them round through Italy, Spain, France,
Germany and Great Britain, when they
oQzl. 10 be nome looking alter their
f0unci&l or political interests. Bit IS
the women have u responsibilities in
either, they press
THEIR DISTRACTED FATHERS AND HUs-
BANDS
10 stay. a gentleman whom met here
recently told me thet he dioliked travel
ing by land and sea; tlaJ re preferred to
sit in au.easy chair IN his own comfort
able home ia Cnicsg0 snd read ABOUT the
wonders e The oh world tDal to rush
round by day aud night, hewilGereS with
strange languages ard n fneys, looking
otter Saratoga Trunks, hunting up h0ts Is,
guides ard 81 smerS, jeTked through
miles Of picture galleries, pulled &c the
TOP OF C2the&r4ls, t. military professions
end royal balls, ysnly fighting for his
rights al eFe-y turn, compelled 20 pay
well not Cr,y for what he did get, bUs
fer 'ieXtCas" taSt he never gOI al gil.
Another gentieIlS1 said 10 ne "It
were not thoroughly heG-pec6ed | Should
not have tolerated what | have borne
win th2 pstieuCs Of an ass. During the
lest three vesUs | have been pulled from
pillar to post throughout E10pe Wh2t
mas been pleasure 10 my wife hiss been
misery to me.n turned on this occasion
To another gentleman who had no vile,
sad asked him: "Why axe you suffering
this same eXistence?" "Oh," was his
reply, II an chicken pecked. My dsush.
tels push NE al the point OF CIa 6aTonet.' -
How much truth there may bt
ii this merjyIdom O. rien d(
not pretend to know, bat it il
evident to oyeIybo y that whi!e
the men lock thin ana tired, the womer
cppe2T thoroughly satisfied and Ell hUsi-
as.ic over ell ttey SIZE saclcg and doing
IS every steamer lands cur country
women by the hundreds on these Euro
pesE shores, ara as all alike havC COCO
reasors-at least they appear so TO then
for coming abroad without husband
aai fathers, there must be some cGus;
for the complaints OF oar unhappy sire
and sons, compelled TO choose betweel
the miseries Of Il trip 10 Europe or g de
serted Preside in the United States.
As soon es the spring opens Paris i
filled with Americans. ! have ne! mere
N one montG, more Cf my countrymei
aud women than | would nave mt 3
nome in g year. For the rict, the fashion
able, and the Idle, WHO have 10 purpoS
in life but Ell pvman-, io7 tire invalid i
search Of CHI, .e Of slr and scene, P&Ii
isl city Of unrlTaNsa a.traC ion. Wit
It's wide streets, lined with trees an
lawns; its irGumerable parks, with thei
lakes, fountains and h1Necs; its oil
palaces aud cAtheGra s; its lheaters an
endless smusaments; It's libraries an
galleries q pClu.es; its Worth an
Bon M5rche, Pals IL re-eminently tn
resort for tnlse woo have plenty
money TO spend ayd mere time than the
know Whist 10 % With.
Others come here 70 educate the
children. l. Is amusing and pitliul, tCC
70 see mother rushing from one couptr
TO another for tbs purpose. They seeI
10 think, that by some absorbing process
their children viii learn more IL q foreig
lGnd, than oy steady application 10 ii
rudiments Of learning q home. kno
one widow who came 20 London I
educate seven children. Size rented
house OF au Eaglish widow who went !
GeruSny 80 educate her sever, VIII
stiu another E0gljsh widow brcugl
her boys and girls 10 France. Tht
all alike returned to their respectiS
countries, in three years, feeling that h
time and money might have been belt,
spent at home. | think we Can safe
say that srudiouS boy or girl can get {
thorough an education in every state
the American Uaicn IS anywhere in t
world. a country that can boast sue
statesmen, clergFmen, journalists, poet
novelists, scientists snd philosophers
have graduated il the schools and CO
leges OF the United States, need not ser
It's children TO the old WCrld for lesrniI
or accomplishments.
1t is q grand mistake to educate chi
dren in these old monarchical cOuntri
for there Is nothing more ipsdious tbs
this bsteful principle of caste and clss
know an American lady, the wife OF
English brewer, living in a province
town, who wished 10 send her lit
daughter 10 dancing school. But whe
she learned that there was one school 4
the country gentry" and another for Il
ttreGcs neOnlP.p her